THE PACK IS BACK!

The Green Bay Packers are once again the champions of professional football, capturing a record 12th National Football League (NFL) championship by winning Super Bowl XLV, 31-25 over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, February 6, 2011.

The Packer's win marks a resurgence of a franchise that dominated the NFL back in the 1960s, including many of the years that Sing-Out South was in existence.

Vince Lombardi was the legendary coach who led the Packers throughout those glory years, beginning with NFL championships in 1961 and 1962. The Pack began its dominance again on January 2, 1966, just a few weeks before Sing-Out South was founded, with a 23-12 victory over the Cleveland Browns on Green Bay's home turf of Lambeau Field.

This was last season before the Super Bowl began, pitting the winners of the NFL versus the AFL (American Football League). Green Bay won the first two Super Bowls, but to do so they had to beat the Dallas Cowboys in two epic NFL Championship games. The first game, held in Dallas (which ironically was the site of the most recent Super Bowl), the Packers held off the Cowboys on January 1, 1967. But the most memorable game came the next season in perhaps the coldest championship football ever played on New Year's Eve 1967. The Ice Bowl in Green Bay. Here are some highlights, including the Packers' last minute drive and score to win the game and seal the immortality of this era of the Packers....

After winning this game, Green Bay went on prevail in the second Super Bowl, this time over the Oakland Raiders, after defeating Kansas City the year before. Following that second Super Bowl win, Coach Lombardi retired from the Packers, ultimately giving his name to the world championship trophy which now goes back to Green Bay for only the second time (the Pack won it in 1996) since he won his last one in 1968.

And so as we observe the 45th anniversary of the founding of Sing-Out South, it appears the most dominant team in pro football this year is the same franchise that was so dominant throughout the 1960s.